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1/8 of the original amount remains.

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Q: After three half-lives what fraction of a radioactive sample remains?
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What is the significance of a half life of a radioisotope?

It tells what fraction of a radioactive sample remains after a certain length of time.


What fraction of a radioactive sample remains after three half - life?

It is 1/8 .


Why After three half-lives what fraction of a radioactive sample remains?

After three half-lives, only 1/8 (or 12.5%) of the original radioactive sample remains. This is because each half-life reduces the amount of radioactive material by half, so after three half-lives, you would have (1/2) * (1/2) * (1/2) = 1/8 of the original sample remaining.


What percentage of a radioactive sample remains after 5 half-lives?

After 5 half-lives, 3.125% (or 1/2^5) of a radioactive sample remains. Each half-life reduces the sample by half, so after 5 half-lives, there is only a small fraction of the original sample remaining.


What fraction of a sample remains after three half lives?

An eighth remains.


What fraction of a radioactive sample decays after three half lives?

If I take a radioactive sample of 400 moles of an unknown substance and let it decay to the point of three half-lives I would have 50 moles left of the sample. 1/2 of what is left will decay in the next half-life. At the end of that half-life I will have 25 moles left of the unknown substance or 4/25.


. If the half-life of an unstable isotope is 10000 years and only 18 of the radioactive parent remains in a sample how old is the sample?

30,000


What fraction of a sample of N 16 remains undecayed after 43.2 seconds?

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After three half-lives what fraction of a radioactive sample will remain?

Approx 1/8 will remain.


What fraction of a radioactive sample remains after three half-lives?

Not sure what you mean by "had-lives". After 3 half lives, approx 1/8 would remain.


What fraction of an original sample of a radio isotope remains after 3 half-life periods?

One eighth remains.


What fraction of a radioactive sample remains after one half-life?

After one half-life, half of the radioactive sample remains. This means that the remaining fraction is 1/2 or 0.5 of the original sample.